Browse: Davies, Peter Maxwell (composer), Duos

Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Maxwell Davies’s intensity of expression is here distilled into chamber music, by turns simple and complex, furious and tender…The disc closes with the composer’s very last work, a brief movement... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

They make a lovely sound together…I enjoyed the sweetness of Balsom’s muted tone in the central Sarabande of the Françaix and the way that even while articulating brilliantly through Goedicke’s... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

The magic starts with Huw Watkins’s purpose-built Lament for horn and piano, a wonderful beginner’s guide to the expressive colour range possible when a horn is allowed to sing, rage, and sigh…Watkins’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Zehetmair is the intellectual's violinist, with a hair-trigger precision of sound and rhythm, and an eager interest in the allusive and tough-minded parts of contemporary music. His wife, the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…